On April 13, Nvidia launched its highly anticipated mid-high range graphics card model from its latest RTX 4000 series of GPUs. The new card is the GeForce RTX 4070, which arrives with various improvements over its predecessors. This is big news for gaming enthusiasts, who were waiting for this launch for quite a while now. The new graphics card offers a higher VRAM capacity over its predecessor with GDDR6X RAM along with 5,888 CUDA cores. Thanks to this, it offers up to 1.7 times faster than GeForce RTX 3070 Ti while also being 23 percent more power efficient. The Verge recently analyzed the card’s performance in popular gaming titles, and the results are quite interesting – especially with games that support Ray Tracing. Have a look for yourself.
Testing was conducted on a variety of AAA games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Horizon 5, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and the card was compared to the RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3070 Ti, and RTX 4070 Ti. The RTX 4070 offers around 30% more speed than the previous RTX 3070 at 1440p, making it a worthwhile upgrade for gamers looking for a better experience. The card also offers similar performance to the RTX 3080, which is impressive. The step-up RTX 4070 Ti is about 25% better than the RTX 4070 at 1440p. However, in games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the RTX 4070 falls behind due to a bug affecting RTX 40-series cards in the benchmark that was used.
The RTX 4070 performs exceptionally well with DLSS 3, a new upscaling technique exclusive to the RTX 40-series cards. This technique uses AI to generate frames and results in a significant uplift in performance. Enabling DLSS 3 in Forza Horizon 5 increased frame rates by 25%, while Cyberpunk 2077 saw a near doubling of frame rates. However, the RTX 4070 falls behind the RTX 3080 at 4K, which is why Nvidia is marketing it as a 1440p card. If you’re looking for a solid card for 1440p gaming, the RTX 4070 is a great choice. It also comfortably beats the RTX 3070 at 4K.
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